adopted child
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Adoption leave: Players and coaches will receive a minimum of eight weeks' paid absence if an adopted child is younger than two years old.
From BBC • May 31, 2024
Every cuckoo is an adopted child -- raised by foster parents, into whose nest the cuckoo mother smuggled her egg.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Chandrachud, retorted: “But, Mr. Solicitor, the adopted child of a lesbian couple or a gay couple does not necessarily have to be lesbian or gay.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023
An adopted child, she ran out and started walking with them.
From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2023
“I know more of the history of Miss Havisham’s adopted child than Miss Havisham herself does, sir. I know her mother.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
